Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lisnanroum, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnanroum
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisanroum
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnanroum (Site of) (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.03118, -9.15705
- SMR number
- CL009-027----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a plateau in rough pasture, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-022001-), with higher ground c. 50m to the W and limited views from N to E. A NNE-SSW running road lies c. 113m to the E. Depicted on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly square-shaped enclosure (c. 15m N–S; c. 15m E–W) named ‘Lisnanroum’. On the 1897 OS 25-inch plan it is shown as a being subrectangular in plan (c. 19m N–S; c. 10m E–W), abutting the N side of a sheepfold. It is simply named ‘Lisnanroum (Site of)' on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This may be the location of an earthen/stone fort noted in the Ordnance Survey Letters (Comber 1997, 78) as ‘Lismandrum’. However, no visible surface trace of it survives. The sheepfold shown on the 25-inch plan is still extant.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 17 December 2021
References
Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.